TheStaticTurtle

Ultranet adventures part 2: Stagebox!

Ultranet adventures part 1: Working prototype!

Building an open-source bi-directional SDI to Fiber converter Creating a DIY open-source and budget-friendly bidirectional 3G-SDI to fiber converter using readily available components and determination.

AoDNS - The monstrosity that now exists AoDNS, is a monumental monstrosity specifically designed to spread chaos among network engineers by streaming live audio via DNS queries Why ????

Changing my blogging platform For a while now, I used ghost for my blog platform.

Mix this wave: DIY audio mixer Making a very basic 3CH audio mixer with amplified output I'm working in the backstage of concerts of our local choir.

Monitoring CO2 levels, the DIY way Building a DIY CO2 and PM2.5 sensor to measure the air quality in my office and improve my home-maker life.

Adding an mSATA port to a Lenovo M73 Adding a mSATA port to the motherboard of a Lenovo ThinkCenter M73 to enable me to add High Availability to my homelab.

Microphone tally lights Creating a microphone holder with tally lights for a live show and integrating it to the MIDAS M32 mixing console This is a stupidly long article, it details the concept, design, and construction phases thoroughly, you'll need prob…

Sending notifications on user login Writing a small bash script to send a notification in my telegram monitoring channel each time a user logs in to one of my server I thought it was a nice little idea to set up a script that notifies my when a user logins

Homelab Single-Sign On?

Running an ACME in my homelab Running the open-source step-ca ACME server to provision SSL certificates in my homelab Firstly, what is an ACME: ACME means Automatic Certificate Management Environment it's a protocol for automating interactions between cer…

Automating my Outlook calendars Making my life easier by creating a simple python script to generate Outlook meetings from an Excel spreadsheet.

Adding a C14 connector to my Mikrotik switch Recently, I bought some used mikrotik CRS326-24G-2S+RM These switches are remarkable 1g switches for the price, but they have one flaw: they use an external power adapter So, I decided to add an IEC C14 connect…

Rendering SVG with KiCad scripting API The adventure of rendering SVGs with KiCad pcbnew python api.

Too cold?

Let's talk about WireGuard Let's see what WireGuard, the fastest and newest VPN protocol, can offer us.

Keeping it cool, automating a window Let's make a completely overkill project to automate my skylight and integrate it with HomeAssistant.

TurtleAuth 2.1: A design for everyday use Making a updated and sturdier second version of TurtleAuth, my stm32 based GNUK and U2F tokens Context A while back, I created the TurtleAuth, this was a simple stm32f103 + USB connector on a stick.

Fixing a dev worst nightmare Stack Overflow having some kind of maintenance is scary.

TrueNAS - SMB LDAP Auth The very long story on how I setup LDAP authentication for my samba shares with ACLs on TrueNAS Disclaimer: This is not a tutorial, just a lot of notes about how I setup SMB shares with LDAP auth on TrueNAS So with my new NAS I tho…

Wireless audio part 2 - Working prototype Second version of my CC85XX wireless audio transceiver prototype A while ago I design the first prototype of my wireless audio system based on the CC85XX chip family from Text Instruments TheStaticTurtle - Wireless

Using docker to contain projects How I converted my own NodeJS s3 bucket caching system to a simple docker container for easy deployment of servers / scripts About a year ago I moved all of my image storage to an S3-compatible api provided by OVH.

Bridging the gap between old and new, garage door gets a Wi-Fi controller Building a stable and secure garage door controller that interfaces to the original controller This project started a long time ago, the idea is to be able to control the two garage…

Getting started with HID and the Pi Pico Using the Raspberry Pi Pico and circuit python with a joystick to control the computer mouse A few days ago I bought a Raspberry Pi Pico the first thing I did was to flash micropython on it.

Wireless audio part 1 - 1st prototype Making the first prototype of my wireless audio system using Ti's CC85XX series chips I'll be writing this as things come, so the writing style might be a bit different.

Stop now!!

Dirt cheap DIY USB Camera A little after that every blog was popping with the uvc-gadget script to turn your pi4/pi0 into a high quality USB camera. [...]

Auto mute while in meetings Making my door automatically mute me when it gets open so that I don't disturb my classes A few days ago the French government announced a lockdown, universities had to close and do their classes online.

HexClock: Redesigning time Iterating over a pre-existing design to make it better and have cool clock First credit where credit is due.

CM118B: Adding usb audio to my projects Needed USB audio input for my audio matrix.

Creating a custom component for home assistant So after building a reliable enough software for my open433 board, I wanted to make add my project as a platform for home assistant.

Hacking the hardware store fan A while ago someone bought me a little table fan.

Let's turn lights on with the computer the 433Mhz way A while ago I started using home assistant on a pi and bought some inexpensive 433Mhz ac wireless switches.

Let's make a DIY gpg usb key Some of you may know that you can use yubikey's as a gpg smart card for message encryption / ssh login however starting at $45 for a compatible one I didn't really like that, so I searched a bit to make a DIY one.

Experimenting with the OpenGraph protocol Some time ago I remembered about the opengraph protocol The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Terminal TV - Watching videos on the terminal Playing video in the terminal using ANSI codes Intro I'm currently in college, and we all are using Linux computers with ssh enabled.

LinkyLink - Connecting myself to the French energy meter Making a custom board to connect an esp8266 to the french energy meter A bit of context The Linky energy meter is "connected" energy meter it transmit the energy consumed by their user to the energy…

Bone conduction glasses I had a really boring class in high school and short story I made bone conduction glasses Why and how I had a really boring class in high school and I've seen product pages of bone conduction glasses and boy they were expensive.

TI-NSpire SMS Shield Connecting my Ti-Nspire to the world of sms Why and how It all started in a German class I had.